"We're close," said Feeney, R-Oviedo. "But there are a lot of interlocking issues."

Despite weeks of talking and frenzied lobbying by Gov. Jeb Bush and Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan, House and Senate leaders have sealed no agreements on the major issues unresolved from the regular session.

There has been no compromise on a $49 billion budget. The school code rewrite and a Cabinet reorganization plan remain undecided. And there is a push by House leaders to pull health-care issues into the session mix as well.

Bush wants to call lawmakers back into town, but he's waiting for signs that House and Senate leaders are willing to work out their differences -- rather than revert to the political gamesmanship that ended the regular session in March and then a four-day special session on the school code.

The special session imploded on the final day when the Senate refused to accept a House demand that a 1,800-page rewrite of education laws include a list of "basic religious freedoms."

Some senators feared the provision outlining the rights of students to pray, proselytize and hand out literature on campus could expand religious activity in public schools. Supporters said the language would only codify what federal case law allows.

On Thursday, Senate Education Chairman Alex Villalobos, R-Miami, said he thinks both sides have agreed to remove the religion language.